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Nov 2023
45m 51s

Morality and Personality

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Predrag uses a comparison of money and morality to explore the mutual relationship between morality and personality. To clarify the tension that exists between morality and personality, Cicovacki opens his talk by comparing the development of the money economy and morality. Money and morality play a similar function with respect to social interacti ... Show More
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